'OK, but next year in Groningen' (Groningen is some 250 kilometers
from Den Haag/The Hague)

And, just to put it into perspective, that might not sound like much
of a distance, but it's pretty much the two ends of the country. And
with the normal traffic jams, it would still take 5 hours to get from
one to the other :)

I have the perfect solution:
next year you can have the meeting at my house.
It's on Vancouver Island in Canada. Very nice and friendly, 12 cats
so there should be more than enough to go around.
And every one will have to travel about the same distance.